With less than a month remaining until the Heisman Trophy ceremony, Baker Mayfield’s grip on college football’s most prestigious award is tightening.

For the second week in a row, Mayfield was the unanimous first-place vote-getter in The All-American Heisman straw poll. He is the only player to achieve that status this season.

Mayfield followed up a record-setting performance in Bedlam with 383 total yards of offense, three touchdowns and zero interceptions in Saturday’s 38-20 win against TCU, who boasts the Big 12’s best defense. Not only is Oklahoma in position to reach the conference title game and perhaps the College Football Playoff, but Mayfield may also be about to find out that the third time’s the charm for him and this stiff-armed trophy.

Seven other players received at least one vote in Monday’s straw poll, with Stanford running back Bryce Love landing in second place. Louisville quarterback and reigning Heisman Trophy winner Lamar Jackson, who is in third, received votes for the first time since being tied for fourth coming out of Week 3’s games. Jackson on Saturday became the first player in FBS history to pass for 3,000 yards and rush for 1,000 yards in back-to-back seasons.

Penn State running back Saquon Barkley received just one third-place vote, his lowest total of the season, after spending multiple weeks atop the leaderboard earlier this season.

The reason for Barkley’s fall is obvious; his performances of late have been less than inspiring. In the past three games, which includes two season-damaging losses to Ohio State and Michigan State and Saturday’s win against Rutgers, he’s averaged 3.5 yards per carry and has not topped 63 rushing yards in a game. Barkley has only rushed for more than 100 yards three times on the season.

Rank

Name

1st

2nd

3rd

Points

1

Baker Mayfield, Oklahoma

8

24

2

Bryce Love, Stanford

4

3

11

3

Lamar Jackson, Louisville

2

4

4

Jonathan Taylor, Wisconsin

1

1

3

5

Kerryon Johnson, Auburn

1

2

5

Rashaad Penny, San Diego State

2

2

7

Saquon Barkley, Penn State

1

1

7

Khalil Tate, Arizona

1

1

The All-American staff votes each Monday. Players receive three points for a first-place vote, two for a second and one for a third. This is a mock exercise with no direct bearing on the Heisman award.

The 2017 Heisman trophy ceremony will take place Dec. 9 in New York. Mayfield was a finalist last year, finishing third, and was fourth-highest vote-getter in 2015.

Nicole Auerbach covers national college football for The All-American. Previously, she was a national college football and basketball writer for USA Today for nearly six years. Follow Nicole on Twitter @NicoleAuerbach.